<p>...to Cornell students: </p>
<p>Would you consider most Cornell students A+ brilliant?</p>
<p>In high school or at Cornell?</p>
<p>well i figure if they are brilliant they are brilliant - in high school, at Cornell and beyond...but for the sake of answering your question, lets say at Cornell.</p>
<p>It's hard to say, for me at least, because Cornell's student body covers a wide spectrum of people. I've found that most people are smart and very hard-working, but not geniuses. There are nerds, some brilliant, some not, and there are party-goers, some deceptively brilliant, some not. Your perception of Cornell will depend a lot of who you hang out with. A lot of my friends are, in my opinion, brilliant; I happened to meet a lot of smart people during orientation. I was one the best students at my high school, but at Cornell I find myself around the middle of the pack. In short, you won't find any shortage of brilliance and intellectual stimulation, but you probably won't be overwhelmed either.</p>
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<p>Ya know at every high school there's a handful (maybe 3-5) brilliant kids, geniuses. Everyone is always amazed at them and they're considered to be the best of the best (not just at your school, but best of the best nationwide). Those kids go to HYPSMC.</p>
<p>Cornell gets most of their kids from the next group of people. Cornell students range from a few students in the category above, most students in a category below the above, and a good portion who have no business being anywhere close to an Ivy League school.</p>
<p>^^ In a way it's good. It would get boring being around a school full of geniuses. Half of them can barely carry a convo with a chick.
I guess that's where the party side of Cornell comes from. IMO, with it's diversity in it's greek life, but the fact that it's academics are top, top notch, it easily top 3 in the ivy league.</p>